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New advert features Dr Kerry Chant asking that residents please stay home
Impassive health officer stares blankly into the camera in the new lockdown ad
It comes just days after an ad featuring a woman on a ventilator was criticised
Graphic video depicts a young woman struggling to breathe in a hospital bed
Many have pointed out she is under 40 and would not be eligible to get a jab
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NSW has reported 97 new local cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, as Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced Greater Sydney’s lockdown would be extended.
It is the second-highest daily figure recorded during Sydney’s ongoing outbreak. The Premier said Greater Sydney’s lockdown, which includes remote learning for the area’s school students as well as restrictions in regional areas, would remain in place until Friday, July 30.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Health Minister Brad Hazzard at this morning’s press conference.
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“It always hurts to say this, but we need to extend the lockdown for at least another two weeks,” she said.
NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant and Treasurer Dominic Perrottet have denied claims he wanted to cut her pay after she extended the Northern Beaches lockdown last year.
A Liberal Party source told the Australian Financial Review that Mr Perrottett suggested in a crisis meeting that Dr Chant s pay should be cut by five per cent in solidarity with workers and businesses losing income due to the lockdown.
On December 28 the lockdown of the northern zone of Sydney s Northern Beaches was extended until January 9 and residents in the southern zone were told to stay home until January 2.
The source - who was briefed by someone at the meeting but was not there - claimed Mr Perrottet said Dr Chant should sacrifice some of her salary if the extensions turned out to be unnecessary.
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Greater Sydneyâs lockdown will be extended for another two weeks after NSW recorded 97 new cases, the second-highest daily total in the outbreak.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said restrictions, including online learning for schools, would remain in place until July 30 after noting 24 of the new cases were out in the community for their whole infectious period and seven for part of it.
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âThat is the number, the 24 number is what we need to get down to, as close to zero as possible, before we end the lockdown,â Ms Berejiklian said.